What will work best?

[W3MIV]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[kc7jty]

After I stop doing what I'm doing, or have to get up to answer the phone the damage has already been done.
It's about me getting something out of it.
I'm looking forward to the next call so I can try my latest scheme. If they even suspect their calls are amusing you they will stop immediately.

[kf0rt]

Unless you deal only in cash, never having had either a bank account or a credit account, you will find it all but utterly impossible to avoid these calls. When the Congress authorized the creation of a "no-call registry," they exempted charitable and political solicitations (granting charities the exemption to give themselves political cover for their own fund-raising) and any company with whom you have previously done business. For most of us, this means the credit hawkers -- most of which are either owned by or partnered with banks. The banks regularly share their lists, and vice versa.

I look at the CID when the phone rings; if I do not recognize the name or number (the ubiquitous "unavailable" gets an immediate hang-up), I either answer it saying "hello" followed precisely one second later by a second "hello." If there has been no response by the last vibration of my ending vowel, I hang up -- or I simply let it ring. They almost never go past three or four rings, knowing that the average voice mail will pick up after the fourth.

You can't win. You can ask the bastards to remove you from their list, and they supposedly are obligated to honor your request, but I got tired of asking them to do so without result. It is no where near as bad now as it used to be before the minimal advantage of the "no-call list." It is still worth adding your numbers to that FCC site.

Yup. CID wins every time here. If we don't recognize it, it rolls to the answering machine on ring #4. Period - that's the rule. And Comcast flashes the CID info on the TV if we're watching TV. For the really annoying ones, we can reject the call by phone number (phone doesn't even ring). The telephone manufacturers are missing out on a great feature here: I want a "blacklist" button on the phone itself. Push the button, and the phone no longer accepts calls from that number.

Who, in Pavlovian HELL decided I should jump every time the phone rings?

[kf0rt]

Linky

Panasonic to the rescue. Note the "call block" feature (but it only stores 30 numbers).

[kc7jty]

Yeah, I gotta pay extra. I'll just enjoy jerkinem off more than they're doin me.

Got a call from the NRA today and was given a Wayne LaPiere recording to listen to. Hung up on poor ol Wayne.

When someone asks for you or the head of the house, ask who's calling. If you don't the response say "He's out in the barn, I'll get him" and immediately clunk the phone down on a hard surface & leave it for 20 mins.

[kf0rt]

Yeah, I gotta pay extra. I'll just enjoy jerkinem off more than they're doin me.

Got a call from the NRA today and was given a Wayne LaPiere recording to listen to. Hung up on poor ol Wayne.

When someone asks for you or the head of the house, ask who's calling. If you don't the response say "He's out in the barn, I'll get him" and immediately clunk the phone down on a hard surface & leave it for 20 mins.

'Bout 10 years ago, my daughter bought me a CID device as a present. We didn't have the service so instead of the potential of breaking her little heart (she'd laugh at that concept today), we added the 'feed' to make it work. Best damn thing she ever bought me.

For those of youse who play with the people... no probs here at all. I prefer building walls. Same thing, different hobby.

[PA5COR]

I'm on the bail out list for our landline and mobile phones for that.
Any firm that does call me gets fined 100K if i put them through the legal system.
( law here)
Once you are on the list no unsollicitated phonecalls of any sort are allowed for sale or sollicitating busines.
Due to the high fine the system works.
;)